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After outlining “25 Myths” in Monday’s blog, I thought it equally important to follow it up with “25 Truths” to address why each of them is considered a myth. So here we go with a few thoughts on each that can be used in general conversation, not...

How to find out if you are enabling your adult child and ways to stop

Any system that surrounds our childhood can be extremely difficult to escape. How can you heal from legalism and embrace Jesus life-giving grace?

At the time of Hosea’s ministry, Israel had experienced a period of economic prosperity and growth. On the inside, however, they had become corrupt, morally decrepit, and adulterous, one of the major themes Hosea was called to address.

This is the Lord’s purposeful guidance and gracious provision. It’s completely outside our influence and control. We pray in secret, God surprises us, we praise Him, and we know again (even more) that God is in our lives.

"He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?" What does this verse mean for Christians and showing our faith in action?

Though Jeroboam doesn’t gain the seal of divine approval as Northern Israel’s first king, a credential withheld from every northern king who followed, there are several things we can learn from his leadership and those like him.

Performance orientation is everywhere, and it does help motivate us to do our best. The problem, however, is that people carry that performance mode into their love relationships, and they try to earn the love of God and others.

In a culture which insists on self-reliant secularism and personal authenticity as the only path to social and personal flourishing, followers of Jesus are under greater pressure than ever to succumb and conform.

Picture someone trying to get a truth across to you by taking a huge King James Version of the Bible and hitting you over the head with it. Now, that would be a literal interpretation of a Bible-thumper. But metaphorically, it is someone who...

I won’t say that Barbie solves this universal problem or will make a clear-cut, biblical argument for or against complementarianism versus egalitarianism. But it provides enough striking examples to get conversations going–conversations I...

Ministries differ in terms of their size, theology, denomination and location, yet there are consistent traits and skills that ministries seek. Although not comprehensive, here are ten traits/skills that ministries are seeking in their Christian...

It is a good thing to find love, but adversity, defined as difficulties and misfortune, keeps coming at us from within and without, no matter how much we love our spouse. Overcoming adversity in marriage is one of the most important life skills we...

Mom, you did nothing wrong. Your parenting was enough. You raised a strong, independent child who, unfortunately, made bad choices, fell in with the wrong crowd, and was influenced by the world. There is nothing you can do but pray. Your primary...

We must rethink the church’s approach to fulfilling its mission in a post-Christian, digital age. The heart of that rethinking hinges on a single word: hybrid. The church must bring together the physical and the digital, and it must be a vibrant...

We all know there are tons of ways that our children can anger or disappoint us. But what can we do on our end, in our own hearts, to stop from lashing out at them?